ABSTRACT
It is an honour to contribute to a study of ethics and foreign policy, especially as the world now experiences, and will face well into the future, a prolonged period of lethal threats. It is remarkable also that while a large portion of that world lives in conditions of relative and perhaps momentary calm (the industrialized countries generally referred to as ‘the West,’ including Japan), there are now ever-present expectations of sudden, even massive violence being perpetrated by new and highly refined means. The groups involved are engaged in activities which transcend boundaries, and have no fixed location, much less a form of legal existence in the international order.
